Welcome to the Viewshed, the official blog of Traverse Technologies! We established this blog as a means to engage our community in a conversation about a range of topics, but primarily centering around the geographic web, GIS, user-centered design, information architecture, and locatation awareness. Embedded in this conversation is the implicit notion that Where things happen is important. Moreover, we believe that in a world of pervasive networked information technologies that it is becoming increasingly important to find things and keep them found, to paraphrase Peter Morville .

The term ‘viewshed’ refers to views across the landscape from a different vantage points. The key contributors to this blog are drawn from diverse academic and professional backgrounds that will be reflected in the postings.  Through a wide range of postings, we hope to engage you on the issues, events, and forces that surround the user experience of locational information. This might include open source software, software engineering, programming, government use of information, socio-economic issues, the semantic web, and other issues that relate to our central theme.

We encourage your feedback and reasoned commentary on these pages.